Glow Worms Illuminating the Darkness of Ruakuri Cave
Tauheed Ahmad Nawaz
The Spellbinding photographs of glow worms illuminate the darkness in the streaks of turquoise lights inside Ruakuri Cave in the Waitomo area. This is ethereal New Zealand cave is lit up by thousands of glow worms.
The Auckland based 26 years photographer Shaun Jeffers spent almost a year capturing glittering displays, proving that the country is just as beautiful below ground as it is above. In the first look, you’ll realize myriads stars are shining at the cave roof. The creative photographer originally belongs to the Liverpool United Kingdom said; it seems a different plant and really out of the world.
In my entire life, I’ve never experienced such an event like it, and to be very honest, it is extremely difficult to the feeling into words. The glow-worm is out of the world when you standing alone in complete darkness looking up at these little glowing creatures is just so fantastic.
It looks like a real-life Pandora, from James Cameron’s Avatar. I’ve heard from different sources, that glow worms are notoriously difficult to capture. In 2013, I decided to move to New Zealand to take this challenge and submerge myself in his tripod in cold water for up to eight hours a day. See More about
The most famous New Zealand place attracts a lot of photographers to try their luck to capture the stunning luminous glow worm phenomenon, which is called Arachnocampa Luminosa. Only very few of them are able to capture luminous glow worms. I am so lucky to be part of a unique cave and emit a phosphorescent glow in order to catch prey and entice mates.
The Spellbinding photographs of glow worms illuminate the darkness in the streaks of turquoise lights inside Ruakuri Cave in the Waitomo area.The talented 26-year-old, who is originally from Liverpool, UK, said he felt like he was on a different planet and said it it is out of this worldThe photographer heard that glow worms are notoriously difficult to capture, but vowed to see if he was up to the taskJeffers said that seeing the little glowing creatures was like being in a real-life Pandora, from James Cameron’s AvatarCapturing the glow worms was no easy feat, and required the Jeffers to have extreme patience and perseveranceDazzling images show thousands of glow worms casting an ethereal light in the dark underground chambersGlow worms are omnivorous animals but mainly eat snails, slugs, insects, and other small invertebrates from inside the cavesGlowing, sticky lines of mucous and silk, sometimes as long as 50cm, are lowered to catch organisms for the larvae to feast onAuckland-based photographer Shaun Jeffers spent a year capturing the magical displays in one of the Waitomo area’s 30 million-year-old limestone caves
